On March 10, 2017, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. and his Mexican Counterpart Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal announced a renewed effort to resolve ongoing issues with Mexican sugar export and anti-bunching limits. more info | view original

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. announces that China’s Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd., known collectively as ZTE, has agreed to a record-high combined civil and criminal penalty of $1.19 billion, pending approval from the courts, after illegally shipping telecommunications equipment to Iran and North Korea in violation of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR). more info | view original

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. addresses employees upon arrival at the Department of Commerce on Wednesday, March 1st, at 9:30 a.m. in the Herbert C. Hoover Building auditorium. more info | view original

Undergraduate CIC winners Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel from University of Virginia, with USPTO’s Director of Inventor Education, Outreach, and Recognition Elizabeth Dougherty. more info | view original

On November 2, 2016, the city of San Antonio, Texas community leaders and elected officials celebrated the grand opening of the 56,000-square-foot Eastside Education & Training Center (EETC). more info | view original

The Communities that Work Partnership based in the Greater Phoenix region, led by the Arizona Commerce Authority, is focused on engaging and creating initiatives between business, education, and government to develop and retain its workforce in information technology (IT), an emerging driver of regional economic development. more info | view original

The Communities that Work Partnership based in the Northwest Georgia region, led by the Northwest Georgia Regional Workforce Partnership, will focus on the floor covering manufacturing cluster. It will engage the industry to explore changes in curricula, share training assets, promote industry-based career paths, and build a sustainable partnership to provide more support for Georgia's long-standing clusters and the region's largest employer. more info | view original

On November 2, 2016, the city of San Antonio, Texas community leaders and elected officials celebrated the grand opening of the 56,000-square-foot Eastside Education & Training Center (EETC). The facility, which occupies the former Pfeiffer Elementary School, is a one-stop education and workforce development center designed for the Eastside community in partnership with Alamo Colleges and San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD).
The city identified and served as a co-applicant with Alamo Colleges and SAISD to secure a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to renovate the facility. The San Antonio’s Fiscal Year 2017 General Fund budget allocated $100,000 to open and operate the EETC for the next two years. more info | view original

The Greenland ice sheet continued to lose mass in 2016, as it has since 2002 when satellite-based measurement began. Melting began the second earliest in the 37-year record of observations, close to the record set in 2012. more info | view original

The CyberSeek interactive map allows the user to view information about cybersecurity supply and demand by state or metro area. The Kansas City area is highlighted. Credit: CyberSeek more info | view original

After running aground in December 1976, Argo Merchant broke apart, spilling nearly 8 million gallons of oil into Nantucket Shoals. The incident launched what would become NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration. more info | view original

This map shows the historical probability of there being at least one inch of snow on the ground in the Lower 48 on December 25, 2016. You can explore a larger interactive version of the map at Climate.gov. more info | view original